'puter to HD TV Sony bravia.

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RickMorgan

Active member
'er indoors wishes me to interface my 'puter to sony HDTV.
Spec of 'puter below.
Never tried this before and I presume it's not as easy as sticking an hdmi lead into the graphics card (with splitter) as there will obviously be no sound. Also, the TV is around 7 mtrs from the 'puter.
I have no thoughts or ideas re. a dvi lead but presume sound will also be a prob.
So, anyone who has effectively sorted this please post and many thanks in advance.

Spec:

Case
ANTEC 900 BLACK GAMING CASE (£79)
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 955 (3.20GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard
ASUS® M4A89TD PRO/USB3 : DDR3, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, CrossFireX
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5770 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card
NONE
3rd Graphics Card
NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1.5TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 32MB CACHE (7200rpm)
2nd Hard Disk
750GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
3rd Hard Disk
NONE
4th Hard Disk
NONE
RAID
NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£89)
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
800W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£89)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card.......................................................Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)................. not used
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Modem
NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND
Floppy Disk Drive
NONE
Firewire & Video Editing
NONE
TV Card
NONE
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Monitor
IIYAMA E2472HD 24" LED WIDESCREEN, HDMI/DVI-D FULL HD 1920x1080 (£179)
 
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Al.Neri

Super Star
I don't see why it can't be done, this is the method I intend using until I can get a monitor.

I'd be thinking all you need a DVI>HDMI converter and an adequate length HDMI cable, then just plug the converter into the DVI port in the back of the pc, and from there connect via HDMI.

I don't know if there are any settings that would need to be made to the tv or pc though, if there is, I'd like to know what they are myself.

oh yeah, and as for sound, I'd be thinking a 3.5 male/male jack would be needed, one end coming out of the pc, the other end going into the tiv.
 
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PCS

PCS

Administrator
Staff member
It is pretty straight-forward.

Connect the HDMI lead to the input on the TV and output on the graphics card, and enable the second monitor output. (Right-click --> Screen Resolution -->Multiple Displays: Extend these displays)

I believe the sound is also carried digitally to the TV through the HDMI cable, although I cannot confirm if any settings are required for this. Best thing is to set it up and come back if you have any issues.
 
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RickMorgan

Active member
Been doing some digging.
Connect monitor to PC thro. dvi thus releasing hdmi port on puter.
hdmi port on puter to tv and enable sp/dif digital audio.
I think I might be there, any further comments guys?
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

Author Level
DVI can also apparently carry audio. DVI to HDMI convrters are included in GTX 400 series GPUs, so maybe in ATI GPUs? HDMI can also carry audio.

Also consider 64mb cached HDDs rather than 16mb and 32mb
 
Gorman

Gorman

Author Level
Hello, This is how i do it.

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I have set the TV resolution in Nvidia tuner and also the TV as the default playback device in Windows.

Once it is set up correctly when i select the correct HDMI channel on the TV Windows automatically swaps the display from my monitor to the TV and changes the res to suit, the sound is also set to the TV. When i change channel on the TV windows puts it all back how it was.

I have never had an issue with sending Audio over DVI
 
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